Oliver Hartley

Current construction processes are untenable; our built environment is manufactured from petrochemical based, extractive materials that are detrimental to planetary health. Furthermore, warranties, proprietary systems and insurance requirements limit our ability to maintain and repair the city.

This project challenges how we value materials and how we retain the value of existing and used materials in a proposal for Bishopsgate Goodsyard that restores the goodsyard typology for construction materials and waste to enable the mining of the built environment and facilitate the perpetual mutability of the city. The goodsyard will be iteratively remade through the storing and extraction of materials, subverting the typical design process until material availability becomes the primary design tool.